Thursday, February 09, 2017

Thursday Post

Several senior Canadian government
ministers visited Washington this week to meet their U.S. counterparts
as part of a charm offensive designed to persuade the Trump team not to
single out Canada during the NAFTA talks.

Good luck with those selfies, Hair-Boy. That is all you will get out of this trip. If Trump is serious about NAFTA, relying on our "good neighbour" status is not going to work. That is blood in the water seeped from a wound on the colossally stupid. People depending on Hair-Boy to stand up for the Canadian economy haven't been paying attention to recent events on either side of the border. Trump wants American jobs, low tariffs and no "lone wolves" slipping into the US. Trudeau can promise none of that, but Trump can re-introduce tariffs in the event NAFTA is scrapped completely.

Canadian troops critical to the fight against ISIS have lost a major
tax break that had saved them more than $9,000 each over the course of a
six-month tour.

The tax breaks, worth between $1,500 to $1,800 per month, are provided
to soldiers who meet certain criteria related to the risk of their
duties and the relative hardship of their living conditions while
deployed overseas.

Fifteen soldiers at Camp Arfijan, a base in Kuwait, lost the tax break
in September, after the military downgraded the risk level. They fought
to get it back, arguing that they faced no less danger or hardship than
other soldiers stationed in the country.

But instead of restoring the tax break to Camp Arifjan’s soldiers, the
military took the exemption away from the more than 300 soldiers
stationed in Kuwait who will no longer be eligible as of June 1st, 2017.

One soldier told CTV News that, out of all the nations fighting ISIS,
he believes the Canadians are the only ones who will not be getting the
tax break. The Pentagon confirmed to CTV News that all American soldiers
deployed to Kuwait receive tax exemption status.

Canada has
long prided itself on being a multicultural nation that values
inclusion, opening its borders to refugees and immigrants, no matter
their ethnicity or religion.

But has
U.S. President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban, his promise to build a
wall on the Mexican border and months of pre-election anti-immigrant
rhetoric led to a rise in racial intolerance in this country?

What else is Trump's fault? The Death Star?

Perhaps this sort of insanity should be encouraged. I mean - when you stretch credulity too far, no one will believe insane horsesh-- about Trump.

Do not get me started on the veneer of political multiculturalism in Canada.

A rough tally of the ballooning financial plight of the electricity
sectors in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland quickly
runs to more than $50 billion in new debt and imbedded costs for
investments that threaten to be money-losing drags on growth and
consumers — and the federal government —for years to come.

Kat
Smith, a 41-year-old mother from Dorset, England, gave birth
prematurely to beautiful twin girls in early November 2016 —
approximately three months before they were due. Jasmine and Amber
Smith-Leach were born at low birth rates, 2 lbs. 2 oz. and 2 lbs. 12
oz., respectively, and were fighting for their lives at Poole Hospital.

Miraculously,
a crochet octopus toy helped provide comfort to the twins. When the
girls were asleep, they held onto the tentacles tightly. By two weeks
old, mom said that although the twins had a few conditions associated
with premature birth, they were doing really well.